You can also add tuna, corn kernels or chinese dried meat/fish floss on the inside. Make rice balls and sprinkle with furikake seasoning. I also like to let them marinate in soy sauce and hot peppers and eat with a bowl of rice. Probably also doable with artificial crab meat or some teriyaki steak.Ĭucumbers are cheap chop them up into bite sized pieces and dip in soy sauce & wasabi (or soy sauce & garlic). But if you're craving cheap sushi-substitutes or easy asiany-stuff. Not just cold bits of protein to mindlessly snack on. When you say 'sushi temptations' I think sashimi and all that other good stuff from a restaurant. But they are pretty close to what you get at a sushi restaurant and many times better than the peg-bags of crab sticks found at most supermarkets. Undoubtedly they are shipped to the store frozen and probably in some sort of factory packaging. I have found one Safeway (in Ken Caryl, Colorado) that displays crab sticks right in their 'fresh' seafood display case. The vast majority of supermarket crab sticks are downright awful and nothing like the ones used in sushi restaurants. These tubs are really intended for making things like crabcakes and crab omelettes, but eaten cold by fingers, you not only get all three benefits listed above, you also get a fourth: seafood taste.Īrtificial crab sticks. An 8oz tub goes for $10, 16oz (usually good for two servings for me - I generally consume food in large quantities anyway) goes for $16. Now this is really pricey, but still cheaper than sushi. Served cold and cut up, they can be packed into small tupperware and eaten anywhere with fingers.Ĭrab claw meat. I usually bake a bunch of whole chicken legs every week anyway, to have ready for those 'I don't want to cook' nights. I avoid the inexpensive bulk pre-peeled eggs from Costco because of the sodium benzoate.īaked, cold chicken. The ones from Trader Joe's are without sodium benzoate, a preservative that gives me severe headaches, but they are expensive. If you're lazy and less frugal, rather than pre-peeling and storing yourself, you can get the pre-peeled from the factory. Pre-peeled is best to satisfy requirement #1 above (fast). High-protein, so that it is palatable to American tastes Overall, the general idea is to find alternatives that have the same advantages of sushi, namely:įinger food (no utensils required, can be consumed while doing something else) For those who struggle with sushi temptations, here are some low (or lower-) cost alternatives that can help spread out the time between real sushi experiences.

Alternative side of sushio